Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language education

To comprehend how sexual orientations and genders "otherwise" are intertwined, we start from our own bilingual locus on enunciation to situate the reader into a process of self and collective decolonization. We resort to Valentina’s self-construction of her gender subjectivities as a teacher. It is from here, in her corporeal-ity, that we bound with her locus of enunciation as a transgender/blind woman, from a decolonial investigative doing-thinking, and that we converse around her knowledge(s) and practices (corporeal-ity-ies/corporeal-i-dades). We are interested in opening a path to the pedagogization of language teacher education. This is why we elaborate on a narrative research report to present our own bilingual and multidirectional endeavor in which we (Valentina, Harold, and Diego) engage in knowledge co-construction. However, we offer a political and onto-epistemological repertoire to avoid falling into colonial terms (e.g., research participant). Instead, we place ourselves in a critical-decolonial thought-doing to subvert readers’ bilingual minds when referring to the notions of corporeality/corporealidad and present our own body-political locus of enunciation. We are here to say that since there is little local knowledge about English/French teachers who are blind and transgender in professional training processes, the corporeal-ity-ies/corporeal-i-dades Valentina narrates informs several defensive struggles where the body biologically and universally understood as the feminine is dissociated and seen differently. It is in this rupture with the heteronormative/colonial/modern logic that we dare to say that not only does the trans-body break the ontology of disembodiment/embodiment presented in teacher education, but it also extends the importance of comprehending trans experiences since her corporeal-ity-ies/corporeal-i-dades configure her locus of enunciation. With this, we mean that despite the predominance of heteronormative corporeality/corporealidad, subverting this logic is possible if hierarchical relations and oppressive situations are epistemically and politically recontextualized in the body.

Datos
Titulo: 
Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language education
Autor(es): 
Harold Castañeda-Peña
Diego Fernando Ubaque Casallas
Titulo del Libro: 
Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America Moving to a Multilingual Mindset
Pais: 
Estados Unidos
Editorial: 
Routledge
ISBN: 
978-1-003-32674-8
Paginas: 
22
Año: 
2023